They've got him surrounded...
As Vice President Mike Pence made a fool both of himself, and the country he is supposed to be representing, at the Olympic Games byrefusing to stand for the athletes of any nation other than the US, back at home the Washington Post was reporting on a President Trump who appears to have nothing in common either with Pence or with the White House staff. The piece, entitled “Trump’s favorite general: Can Mattis check an impulsive president and still retain his trust?” tells a story that pits a President inclined to challenge the War Party against a Praetorian Guard determined to nullify his electoral mandate to keep out of foreign wars and put “America first”:
“Although Trump has given the military broad latitude on the battlefield, he also has raised pointed questions about the wisdom of the wars being fought by the United States. Last year, after a delegation of Iraqi leaders visited him in the Oval Office, Trump jokingly referred to them as ‘the most accomplished group of thieves he’d ever met,’ according to one former U.S. official.”
Truer words were never spoken, but of course this leak is designed to embarrass Trump and put him at odds with those very thieves. Mattis was presumably horrified by this truism, since the General is an even bigger thief, having successfully manipulated Congress into appropriating 15.5 percent more money for the military than Trump asked. The Post piece goes on to detail the President’s many heresies:
“He has repeatedly pressed Mattis and McMaster in stark terms to explain why US troops are in Somalia. ‘Can’t we just pull out?’ he has asked, according to US officials.
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3 comments:
Possibly Mr. Trump doesn't fully understand the agendas of the people who put him in office. If so, then he will become in as much danger as the idiot JFK who actually said publicly that he intended to smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and that he would continue to print sound US Dollars without the Federal Reserve Bank involvement.
Let's all hope and pray Mr. Trump knows more about his bosses (international bankers) than he lets on. Perhaps it is all just showmanship, which Mr. Trump has proven he is very good at (Reality TV show).
President Trump and the people he's chosen know exactly what they're doing. Taking down those who sold out America is going to take some time and is certainly a dangerous path. But it's the one that #WETHEPEOPLE elected him to take.
Good point. Never thought of it like that.
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